Congress?

The B41 and B53 were developed at the same time, and both are now retired. The largest US warheads now in use are 1.2 Mt.

As the accuracy of delivery methods has improved, the yield has gone down. Except for special cases, it is more efficient toeither drop a smaller nuke closer to the desired target, or drop a number of smaller nukes spread out over an area than single huge ones.

I suppose that way when they lose your checked golf bag, you'll still have almost enough clubs for pitch & put.

Both. DC's filing claims both trade mark and copyright infringement, and Towle's response asks that both be dismissed. All we're missing is a design patent.

The summary could use some work. The article is talking about the the agency (National Nuclear Security Administration) that controls the design, development and maintenance of nukes and related facilities, said agency being created in 1999 and placed under the Energy Department (civilian) control. What's up for discussion is are plans to move it out from under the Energy Department.

The article is quoting "US officials" when describing it as tumbling. If the satellite is spinning around more than one axis, then tumbling is the appropriate description, and is strong evidence that it is not under control.

http://www.engadget.com/2008/07/10/all-nvidia-8400m-8600m-chips-faulty/

Netflix says for the best quality setting to expect about 600 kB/s of traffic for HD programming (or 5 Mbps), so only households with multiple streams going will exceed that.

If your orders have to transit hundreds of km, whether it's at 3e8 or 2e8 m/s, you're already at a disadvantage compared to those that have their servers co-located with or next door to the exchange's servers.

The change jar might be the only savings/pension plan many people are left with ...

But in this Canadian's experience, the toonies, loonies, and maybe some quarters get retained as pocket change, since you can still buy stuff with only a few such coins or top up a purchase otherwise using bills. What pocket change used to be. The main purpose now, it seems, for quarters and smaller coins is to give the impatient cause to groan when somone ahead in line dumps literal handfuls of change on the counter.

The author was volunteering as a poll-watcher, so needed a physical list to bring to the polling place, where even having somewhere to sit isn't a given. It does seem an ideal situation for doing on a tablet, if one happens to have one.

Unless your company (or union) tells you it's part of the workplace.

FEC Concludes Corporations And Unions May Force Workers To Campaign For Political Candidates Of Their Choice

Yes. They use attack aircraft with 'buddy stores' (essentially an external fuel tank with aerial refueling hardware) to top-up other aircraft. At present they use the F/A-18.

I wish using the word "subsidize," especially by the telcos, to describe this would end. The one subsidizing the phone is the buyer, by locking themselves into an inflated monthly fee.

If you are in the USA you are either covered by a federal insurance scheme or more likely SOL, as the private insurers won't provide flood insurance.